Yahoo Search prepares to kick Google tush!

Yahoo on Monday unveiled a major expansion to its Web search index, which now scours more than 20 billion objects across the Internet. The number trumps search leader Google's 11.8 billion-item index, although Yahoo admits that when it comes to Web searches, size doesn't matter most.
"While we typically don't disclose size (since we've always said that size is only one dimension of the quality of a search engine), for those who are curious this update includes just over 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files," developer Tim Mayer wrote in the Yahoo! Search blog.

I used Yahoo! for years. It's a shame for them that they got comfortable with where they were as a portal and didn't innovate in the same way that Google did. How many years younger is Google than Yahoo!, and how much more has Google done to pass Yahoo! by? It's all about looking ahead to the next big thing... or creating the next big thing.

I used Yahoo! for years. It's a shame for them that they got comfortable with where they were as a portal and didn't innovate in the same way that Google did. How many years younger is Google than Yahoo!, and how much more has Google done to pass Yahoo! by? It's all about looking ahead to the next big thing... or creating the next big thing.

who are you going to buy stock in though? Not yahoo imo. Google or MS is where you want to be investing for search technology. Bothe companies have enormouse resources and some insanely creative people.

It doesn't really prove anything about the size of Yahoo!'s search index, but IMHO shows that Google has a much better way of delievering the pages that it's indexed. In the end if you can't show a relative search result for a search you could have all the pages on the net indexed and you'd still be number 2(3?).